Warriors keep streak alive with 2OT win over Celtics

Stevens had the Celtics overplaying and shooting passing lanes, forcing the Warriors to run through their plays and looking at their 3rd, 4th, and 5th options out of sets on a night when their secondary and tertiary scoring options were in suits watching on the bench. The Celtics led 56-30 with 6:40 left in the second quarter and TD Garden was rocking before Golden State rallied….

Curry finished with 38 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists but made just nine of 27 shots from the floor and was guilty of eight turnovers.

DeMar DeRozan scored 27 points as Toronto defeated Milwaukee 90-83, the third win in a row for the Raptors (15-9) and the second loss in a row for the Bucks (9-15).

Whichever defensive stopper the Boston Celtics placed on Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry over the course of Friday night’s 124-119 defeat, it simply did not matter.

There were times where Draymond Green and Stephen Curry just looked at each other in the waning moments of the Warriors’ exhausting battle against the Celtics and consoled each other.

“But we got stops, everybody contributed… considering all the injuries we had and this being the end of the road trip – huge win for us”. “We’re not running away from it, or trying to hide from it. We actually like that, and we’re looking for different things to motivate us and fuel us along the way, along the journey”.

Counting the wins in their final four games last season, the defending National Basketball Association champions have taken 28 in a row. That broke a tie with the 2012-13 Miami Heat for the second-longest winning streak in league history, and now trails only the 33 straight by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1971-72. Veteran Brandon Rush has seen an increase to his role on the team’s five-game road trip and had 13 points in a season-high 25 minutes against the Pacers.

Thompson after not participating in practice Wednesday took part in a spot-up shooting drill and said afterward that the sprain suffered in the Warriors’ win at in was “very mild”. Isaiah Thomas leads in points with 21.0 and in assists with 6.3 per game.

And Walton, the most successful interim coach in the history of interim coaches, knows better than anyone that the Warriors and Curry have turned into a Justin Bieber concert. They did an admirable job, especially with Turner rejecting a pair of shots by Curry in the middle of the fourth quarter. “But that’s how superstars are in this league”.

Andre Drummond produced 18 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks for the Pistons, who opened a 24-point lead in the first quarter and used a 28-10 run to seize control in the second half.

The Boston Celtics (13-9) are coming from a 105-100 win over the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday. “He was the kind of talented, unselfish and versatile player and person that earned the respect of everyone around him, including his teammates and opponents, and those who knew and worked with him off the court, as well”. No one is paying attention, they’d say.

Golden State played without injured Klay Thompson and Harrison Barnes.

But by then Golden State, which shot 8-for-8 from the line, was surviving on free throws, a just reward for remarkable execution.

The Golden State Warriors have made it clear that their championship season was no fluke.

“Nothing was pretty about this game”, he said. So don’t be surprised to see the Dubs reach a historic milestone on their way to a much bigger historic milestone.

“Now I can admit I’m exhausted”, Curry said.